10-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
3°
Feels like 2°
Wind↑ NE 6 km/h
Humidity 69 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
16°
Feels like 16°
Wind↑ N 7 km/h
Humidity 44 %
11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
6°
Feels like 6°
Wind↑ ENE 5 km/h
Humidity 80 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ NW 3 km/h
Humidity 49 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
8°
Feels like 8°
Wind↑ E 4 km/h
Humidity 84 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
19°
Feels like 19°
Wind↑ NW 3 km/h
Humidity 42 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
10°
Feels like 9°
Wind↑ ENE 6 km/h
Humidity 77 %
Afternoon
Overcast
18°
Feels like 18°
Wind↑ S 1 km/h
Humidity 50 %
Gwangju forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +1.6° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Gwangju climate: what a normal year looks like
The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 30 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −4 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 26 °C.
Nights typically freeze from December to February, the coldest averaging −4 °C in January.
The wet season is concentrated from June to August, which brings 52% of the annual total; July by itself averages 256 mm.
From 14 h 31 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 47 min in late December.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 17 °C, 4 °C cooler than a normal October (21 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
5 °C
−4 °C
34 mm
Feb
8 °C
−2 °C
39 mm
Mar
12 °C
2 °C
66 mm
Apr
19 °C
6 °C
90 mm
May
24 °C
13 °C
102 mm
Jun
27 °C
17 °C
174 mm
Jul
29 °C
22 °C
256 mm
Aug
30 °C
23 °C
235 mm
Sep
26 °C
17 °C
144 mm
Oct
21 °C
10 °C
57 mm
Nov
15 °C
4 °C
48 mm
Dec
7 °C
−2 °C
34 mm
Whole year
19 °C
9 °C
1,280 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 35.15° N, 126.92° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.
Air you breathe in Gwangju: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.511µg/m³
PM1012µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Gwangju
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Gwangju, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
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Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Gwangju yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Gwangju
Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 15:54 Set 06:20
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Wed11/113%
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Seoul); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Gwangju
Curious about the weather in Gwangju on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Gwangju weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Gwangju, Gwangju: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “drizzle”, it is 9 °C (feels like 9 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.
Expected range today: 10 °C to 19 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.
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